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Lots of believers use Logos to study the Word in lots of ways, and we’re here to help take out the busywork so that you can focus on digging deep and applying and sharing what you find. After all, wrestling with technology doesn’t change lives. Wrestling with the text does.
This last release of 2025 helps equip more of that wrestling in 2026.
Watch the update
Prefer a video walkthrough? Product manager and longtime Logos user Mark Barnes will share everything you need to know about this update in a live session. There’s even time for Q&A at the end, so stick around with your burning questions.
Sign up for the video walkthrough on December 18 or catch the replay.
Highlights at a glance
1. Study Assistant made more capable and more available
Study Assistant is now available on mobile and includes chat history.
In case you’ve missed what you can do with Study Assistant (introduced in last month’s release), it enables you to chat with books in Logos and your Bible. Unlike other AI, Study Assistant gives you answers only from Logos resources, not the internet at large. And you don’t have to worry about the AI making things up: You’re reading responses taken from the work of published Bible scholars and teachers.
It also gives you citations and links to the exact location each answer comes from so you can click through and explore for yourself.
It’s not meant to think for you, study for you, or create for you. Rather, it’s built to assist you on the way, pointing you in possible directions for further study. As one user wrote in the Logos community:
I just saw the update video for November and I was thrilled to see the Study Assistant politely saying, “No, I can’t do that” when asked to write a sermon, and explaining that AI is here to help us research and find information FOR our original content, not to create it.
That’s why it’s called Study Assistant.
Ask away on mobile
Just like on the web app and desktop app, now you can open Study Assistant on your mobile app to ask questions in everyday language, dive deep into Scripture, and uncover insights drawn from your trusted resources.
One user wrote to say this:
It is great to be out and about and have a conversation with Study Assistant then when you get back to your desktop the conversation is preserved there.
I am also excited to find updates to Factbook immediately available on Mobile like the questions to ask and the extrabiblical resources. Things have certainly changed around here, for the better.
You could advertise it as an antidote to doom-scrolling on social media. “I stopped scrolling Tik Tok and now I scroll Factbook and Study Assistant.”
Trade doomscrolling for Scripture? We like the sound of that!
Open Study Assistant and give it a try! Even if you’re not subscribed, you’ll now be able to preview it on desktop or web.
You can now reach Study Assistant from the main navigation on desktop and web, added because users loved it so much they wanted easier access.
You can also reach it from Tools menu, Factbook, or a Smart Search synopsis. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use it, including how to tell the Study Assistant to use the entire Logos catalog or restrict its scope to books in your library.
Revisit past chats
Want to go back to a Study Assistant conversation? Now you can—on any platform.
Whether you can’t quite remember where a conversation landed or you have something new you want to explore from a previous conversation (or something in between), Study Assistant now offers conversation history.
Study often happens in stages—sometimes over hours, sometimes over weeks—and now you can pause, explore something new, and come back without losing progress. Every question, insight, and response is preserved and easy to rediscover.
Try it now! Even if you’re not subscribed, you’ll get a free preview on desktop or web.
2. Explore extrabiblical texts in Factbook
Extrabiblical texts are useful in historical and biblical study, but they’ve been difficult to discover in Factbook. Now, Factbook gives you links to important extrabiblical writings, not just dictionary articles or scattered secondary references.
Before, if you looked in Factbook for texts like the Didache, 1 Clement, or the Apocalypse of Elijah, you might have only seen brief summaries or journal articles, even if you owned the full text, translations, or commentaries in your library.
With this update:
- You’ll see a new Texts section that shows both the original language versions and modern translations of these works. This section is displayed for both biblical and extrabiblical texts.
- The Commentaries section, which previously only displayed for biblical texts, now also appears for extrabiblical texts, displaying scholarly resources that explain and analyze the work.
This makes it easier than ever to read, compare, and study these historical writings all in one place.
3. Smart synopsis for Bible searches
Where does Paul disagree with people? Now you can do a Smart Search in your Bible for questions like that, then get a synopsis of results.
Previously, with Smart Search in Bible selected, your answer to this question would be a list of verses.
Now, you still get that list! But you also see a summary at the top to quickly orient you to what the Bible says and key passages. And you can continue the conversation in Study Assistant if you have follow-up questions.
More updates
For a limited time, even if you’re not subscribed, you’ll have free use of Smart Search. Rather than only having a few uses throughout the month, you’ll be able to continually search in everyday language while the free preview lasts.
That means searches will default to Smart Search rather than Precise Search. Since you don’t have to stop and think of complicated search syntax, you can continue with your study more quickly.
Want to see all the updates? Take a look at the technical release notes.
How do you update to the latest version?
That question has come up in our What’s New demos. Watch below for the answer and save your spot for a walkthrough of these updates (and more) at the next demo.
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